Sharing Health Data  – across borders and beyond

The European Health Data Space (EHDS) is moving from regulation to implementation. With the framework in place, attention is now turning to how European requirements will be translated into common rules and practical solutions, and what this will mean for countries preparing to implement them.

This session explores the road ahead for health data sharing in Europe, from the development of implementing acts through the EU comitology process to the practical challenges of making health data interoperable and usable across borders. We will look at both primary use, including semantic interoperability and the European Electronic Health Record Exchange Format, and secondary use of health data for research, innovation and policymaking. Drawing on European and Nordic perspectives, including experiences from TEHDAS2 and VALO, the session will explore how regulation, standards, governance and collaboration can come together to make the ambitions of EHDS work in practice.

Norway and the EHDS
v/Ole Norberg Gjerrestad, Policy Officer Digital Health, European Commission

Ole Norberg Gjerrestad, Policy Officer Digital Health i European Commission

A direct update from Brussels.

Sharing data – the road ahead
v/Sylvia van Laar, Senior policy officer semantic interoperability at the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport in The Netherlands

Sylvia van Laar senior policy officer semantic interoperability at the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport in The Netherlands.

Van der Laars current work focusses on the European Electronic Health Record exchange Format, and a strategy for IDMP (Identification of Medicinal Products). 

The Nordics and EHDS
v/Sofia Peltola, Specialist at the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra

Sofia Peltola, specialist at the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitr

Peltola works in the coordination team of two international health data projects, TEHDAS2 and VALO, which advance the implementation of the European Health Data Space.

Moderator: Line Andreassen Sæle, Virksomhetsarkitekt, Folkehelseinstituttet